I've seen some presentations and Graal looks impressive. It seems Oracle is investing a lot on it, already having other languages running on it.
IMO Groovy would be benefit a lot being able to run on Graal. p On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like it might be useful for Groovy 4+. > > > On 5 Sep. 2017 5:09 am, "Jochen Theodorou" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> since Graal is now available in JDK9 by default I was wondering if we >> should go into a path for deep integration with Graal if we can take >> advantage of it. >> >> In the past I was quite partial to this because of the licensing of Graal >> itself. I know from before it was GPL with or without classpath extension. >> But even with classpath extension I was not feeling well about depending on >> it and the trouble users would have go through to setup an optional Graal >> part. >> >> Well, now since it is part of JDK9 those troubles are of the past. Now >> everyone has a ready to use Graal afaik. And we do no longer have to >> distribute it. That means we can consider really depending on it, like we >> depend on the Java platform itself. >> >> How do others think? >> >> bye Jochen >> >
